The processing of different syntactic structures: FMRI investigation of the linguistic distinction between w h-movement and verb movement

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-17

  Shetreet, Einat ^a   Friedmann, Naama ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Neurolinguistics; Sentence processing; Syntactic movement; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SYNTACTIC MOVEMENT;

EID: 84880991584     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: 18738052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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